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It may. We don't use it. Too many freeze/thaw cycles each
winter around here. It would get destroyed in a few years.
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Google tried to cheap out in Louisville... didn't quite work out
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/7/18215743/google-fiber-leaving-louisville-service-ending" eudora="autourl">
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/7/18215743/google-fiber-leaving-louisville-service-ending</a>
- although that was even more sketchy than traditional
microtrenching.<br><br>
As for rural, the business case becomes even more difficult when you're
measuring kilometers per home passed instead of homes passed per
kilometer...<br><br>
At 07:58 PM 02/02/2023, Kevin Shymkiw wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Clayton,<br><br>
Did you leverage things like micro trenching for this project?� I
may be mislead, but I thought micro trenching these days has helped drive
the cost of doing this down fairly significantly.<br><br>
Kevin<br><br>
On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 17:56 Clayton Zekelman
<<a href="mailto:clayton@mnsi.net">clayton@mnsi.net</a>>
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<dd>The cost is not low.� Trust me on that.� I've been
involved in a pretty massive suburban fibre deployment for the past
decade... I expect we'll make money sometime in the 2030's... in time for
me to retire.<br><br>
<dd>At 12:13 PM 02/02/2023, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote:<br>
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<dd>The cost to build physical layer in much of the suburban and somewhat
rural US is low enough anymore that lots of smaller, independent, ISPs
are overbuilding the incumbent with fiber and taking a big chunk of their
customer base because they are local and care.� And making money
while doing it. <br><br>
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Clayton Zekelman<br>
Managed Network Systems Inc. (MNSi)<br>
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